Updated from Assos' Interactive body insulators, the skinFoil Spring is now created with a seamless tubular construction instead of panels. This creates a lighter, less restrictive and more comfortable fit, and has no seams next to your body to chafe.

Wear the SS.skinFoil Spring body insulator base layer in the warmer Spring and early Summer days to wick moisture away from your body, to your jersey and out into the air. It is antistatic and antibacterial, meaning you will stay fresh for much longer, without ending up in a smelly sweaty top. Use arm warmers in the earlier morning and then remove them as the day warms up, leaving the skinFoil to control your body temperature.

The bodyMap build means that the material is different thickness in different areas of your body, with some areas being thinner to allow easy movement and some being harder wearing. All in a very elastic fit, to keep it close to your body without pressure to be able to work effectively.

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ABBREVIATIONS

434
An ASSOS custom Lycra-spandex fabric used in our shorts and knickers, which offers compression and comfort.

607
Indicates products that use our warm, breathable RXQ material, which features low-volume, 4-way stretch and a fleece-like inner lining that traps an insulating layer of air next to your skin while moving moisture away from the skin.

ABC-M ASSOS Bib Closure-Mechanism (Mod. dep.)
Thanks to this construction, opening, adjusting or closing a bib is easier than ever. The ABC-M Bib Closure-Mechanism is used on all Lady's Shorts and Tights.

AEPD Advanced Ergonomic Pattern Design
The company's know-how, experience and philosophy on how a garment should be tailored to function in the cyclist's position. ASSOS garments are designed to perfectly fit and adhere to the body, in other words, to respect the anatomy of the cycling body. High-tech fabrics are pointless if cut "wrong"!

ALS Assos Layering System
Less is more. The entire ASSOS collection is conceptualized around this technology.
ASSOS apparel is engineered with minimum volume, taking advantage of the body's natural heating/cooling capacities by insulating intelligently through pro-active layering.
Both fabrics and garments have chain functions and are cut to complement each other. Everything fits like a puzzle; technically as well as aesthetically. It is up to each cyclist to follow the climate range guidelines and to experiment with the different ASSOS garments in order to find the perfect personal outfit for each specific riding season.

Campionissimo
The technical cycling apparel collection produced by ASSOS since 1976.

Choose Your Color
ASSOS products are not only designed to fit each other technically, but aesthetically as well. The collection features 5 main colors. ASSOS products and the ASSOS look do not change seasonally. This allows the ASSOS rider to create a personal cycling wardrobe over various seasons. New equipment will always fit the existing wardrobe; ASSOS is created to be a "long-term" partner.

Choose your Comfort
Comfortable shorts are the essence of cycling. ASSOS therefore offers 3 different + 1 specific "lady" cycling shorts. The most expensive is not necessarily the best solution. Anatomy, riding style and preferences are an individual matter. This is why the ASSOS cycling shorts collection features specific solutions, covering different needs.

Cycling Body R&D
It's the ASSOS department that works day-in and day-out to ensure the cyclist's total comfort. The company's main focus is the cyclist's body.

Elastic Interface Technology
A quarter of a century after the invention of the very first Lycra cycling shorts (ASSOS 1976), the Elastic Interface technology – the first elastic cycling shorts insert – marks the second, true revolution in making cycling shorts more comfortable. Invented by ASSOS in close collaboration with its engineering partner CyTech.
Due to the significance of this innovation, ASSOS and CyTech have decided to make the technology available to other manufacturers, this in an effort to allow the largest possible number of cyclists to experience the improvement.
Beware of imitations! Only choose cycling shorts with approved, original, "Elastic Interface Technology" written inside.

The Elastic Interface trademark and logo belong to ASSOS of Switzerland SA and are licensed to CyTech Srl.

Engineered in Switzerland
All ASSOS products are exclusively designed and developed in the Southern part of Switzerland at the ASSOS headquarters in San Pietro di Stabio. It is there, just outside Lugano, that each ASSOS product is invented, researched and, finally, brought to life.

The typical Swiss work-mentality governs the way things are done at ASSOS. Discipline, attention to detail, method, drive to improve, respect and pride for well-done work are only a few of the characteristics of the highly specialized ASSOS staff.

Production processes and Quality Control procedures are defined in-house and executed by a squad of highly specialized technicians. The physical assembly of ASSOS products takes place partly in-house at the Swiss ASSOS headquarters and partly at 4 partner-laboratories in Europe. These labs operate under ASSOS certification and strictly adhere to ASSOS production guidelines and techniques.

Made in Cycling
"With this slogan, ASSOS intends to reaffirm its deep and exclusive attachment to cycling!
We are cyclists, we live in cycling, we think cycling and we love cycling. We are not interested in commercial opportunities offered by other sports, even if skaters or rowers often ask us to produce apparel for their discipline. We concentrate on the one-and-only thing we know: cycling!"

manguSSta
Spanish for mongoose, the ASSOS corporate animal symbol. And the name of a new ASSOS shortsleeve performanceFit jersey, the SS.mangussta.

Sponsor Yourself
"With this slogan, ASSOS intends to incite cyclists to take the best possible care of themselves.

In cycling, comfort is of the essence and - no matter at what level one rides - no compromises should be made on this topic!"

Textile Laboratory Lugano
A division of ASSOS of Switzerland SA which comprises a network of textile engineers and technicians who specifically work on developing fabrics for ASSOS' exclusive cycling applications. Most of these fabrics are not commercially available. The ASSOS textile laboratory Lugano has a fabric archive of over 3'500 different textiles; 99% of them will never be produced.

FOIL 043™
Foil 043™ has been specially engineered to meet blitzFeder’s specific application requirements of ultra low weight and low pack volume. Due to its no-membrane construction, Foil043™ is defined as a natural windbreaker, meaning that it is ultra breathable while also being water-repellant.

stratagonLight™
stratagonLight™ is a smart performance fabric that features an incredible body temperature response function (patent pending). This “jewel of textile engineering” is able to respond and adapt intelligently to changes in weather conditions and body temperature. The ultrathin, 3-layer laminated fabric construction features the latest in membrane technology, a flexible barrier function. When the temperature is low, the membrane reduces permeability, the membrane closes, helping to retain body heat. As the temperature within your microclima increases, such as when you start working harder on the bike, the membrane opens to facilitate the evaporation process, ensuring maintenance of your body temperature. ASSOS stratagonLight™ allows ideal body temperature management.

stratagonUltra™
stratagonUltra™ is an extremely smart performance fabric, featuring body temperature response function (patent pending). This laminated textile is able to respond intelligently to changes in weather conditions and body temperature.
stratagonUltra™ has an ultrathin 2-layer laminated fabric construction. It features the latest in membrane technology: flexible barrier function. When the temperature is low, the membrane reduces permeability, the membrane closes, helping to retain body heat. As the temperature within your microclima increases, such as when you start working harder on the bike, the membrane opens to facilitate the sweat evaporation process, ensuring maintenance of your body temperature. ASSOS stratagonUltra™ allows ideal body temperature management.

Triton2019 Textile
TRITON is a brand new family of custom-made water protection fabrics, developed by the ASSOS Textile Laboratory specifically for creating the ultimate high performance rain-protection cycling apparel.
TRITON fabrics provide a superior impermeability to vaporpermeability ratio. More importantly, they are able to sense and adapt to changes in ambient temperature thanks to their unique flexible membrane barrier technology. They’re intelligent fabrics! When the temperature is low, the membrane reduces permeability, helping to retain body heat. As the temperature inside the garment rises, the membrane’s pores open to allow accelerated vapor transfer.

Based in Switzerland, Assos have been at the forefront of cycling innovation for over 30 years, and under the leadership of company founder Toni Maier-Moussa have been responsible for the development of the first carbon bicycle frame with teardrop shaped tubing and cow-horn shaped handlebars (1976), the first Lycra skinsuit and cycling shorts (1977-78) and the first V-shaped aero bicycle rim (1980).

It was during the 1970's that Toni accidently invented lycra cycle clothing, whilst trying to create the ultimate bicycle. During the wind tunnel tests of the first ever carbon-fibre bike, Toni inadvertently found that lycra downhill ski racing suits had much less drag than the woolen-knitted cycling clothes of the time. It was from that moment that Assos started to create the high quality cycle clothing that is so popular to this day.

Widely recognised as setting the standards in high quality technical cycling garments, Assos clothing has been worn by countless professional riders to win olympic medals, world championship stripes and tour jerseys, and is highly sought after by connoisseurs around the globe for the astonishing levels of comfort it provides.

Every aspect of the product - from creation to production - is defined at the headquarters in Switzerland, It is here in the Assos competence centre that each product comes to life.

Assos is located outside of Lugano, in the Swiss canto called Ticino. This lovely stretch of land can be described as a network hub or central point in Europe, a place that has maintained tradition for first class textile engineering and a location where cycling enthusiasm and material research meet and melt into advanced technology. At the competence centre in San Pietro di Stabio - Switzerland, Assos employs 47 highly qualified individuals who create the product and establish it's production process.

Assos focuses on "made by" rather than "made in" which only indicates where the assembly takes place, it does not say anything about the quality of the product, about the production standards or about the love & care put into the process. On the contrary, "made by Assos" is our - and your - guarantee that your precious Assos product has been manufactured and assembled the way it deserves throughout the entire production proceess, respecting the Assos standards.